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From: dshr@SUN.COM (David Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: getX11 and Utah Raster Toolkit
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Date: 31 Oct 88 16:43:16 GMT
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> This comment leads nicely into one of my current peeves with X11.  I
> cannot find any way to get a "default colormap" for any visual other
> than the default visual.  Thus, if you are drawing to another visual,
> and you want any control over the colors, you MUST create your own
> colormap.  This means that independent programs drawing to a visual
> cannot share any colormap entries.  Is this really true?  Is there any
> way to fix this?
> 
This problem is being dealt with in the review of the Inter-Client
Communication Conventions manual.

	David.